Staff Software Engineer

Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Staff Engineer on Tenable's Identity Exposure team, responsible for designing and building end-to-end features across UI, API, and data layers and driving architectural discussions.

At a glance

Work mode
Hybrid
Languages
English – excellent
Pay
EUR 72,500 – 96,500 / year

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain robust features spanning UI, API, and data layers
  • Own delivery end to end, from product discussion to production health
  • Help the team grow: share context, give and receive feedback openly, make the people around you sharper engineers over time
  • Work cross-functionally across products, teams, geographies, and disciplines; move across the stack and across domains
  • Contribute freely across repos you don't own — open the PR and get it merged
  • Drive architectural discussions and advocate for scalable, maintainable and cost-conscious designs; spot friction early, flag risks before they escalate
  • Contribute hands-on to AI-driven features and data-intensive product capabilities

What we're looking for

  • Product-first mindset
  • Excellent English
  • Strong communication and ability to drive change efficiently across teams
  • Pragmatic mind, balancing craftsmanship with delivery
  • Fullstack engineering capabilities with a strong backend foundation
  • Solid object-oriented programming skills
  • Experience working with high-volume data systems
  • Familiarity with AI/ML practices
  • Comfortable operating in complex, large-scale processes

Nice to have

  • AWS
  • DynamoDB
  • Snowflake
  • ClickHouse
  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • Dotnet

Your team

Identity Exposure team

Helps security teams cut through noise by connecting identity context to vulnerabilities, so they can prioritize what actually matters and act with confidence.

Benefits

Variable compensation in addition to base pay (bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance

  • A variety of competitive wellness and financial benefits

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About Tenable

The Exposure Management company

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies.

Key facts

  • Cybersecurity
  • Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable
  • Employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500
  • Employees support 50 percent of the Global 2000
  • Employees support large government agencies

What they value

  • Belonging
  • Respect
  • Excellence
  • Deliver results that exceed expectations
  • Win together